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<p>Expected attendants:

<ul>
  <li>Harald Alvestrand</li>
  <li>Ethan Castor</li>
  <li>Dave </li>
  <li>Henry White</li>
  <li>Maybe Denis Havlik (then again, maybe not)</li>
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<p>Instructions for joining at <a href="IRC.php">IRC</a></p>

<h2>Agenda</h2>

<h3>Roll call and approval of minutes</h3>

<p>then again, maybe not - I haven't written them up yet.<br>
The transcript is <a href="transcript-990613.txt">on the webserver</a>.</p>

<h3>New machine: Rules and conventions</h3>

<p>The machine is still scheduled to ship on Sept 7. I've got a disk, so if someone's just
playing a joke on me, it's an expensive one :-)</p>

<p>Things to think about:

<ul>
  <li>The machine is outside the firewalls. How do we protect it?</li>
  <li>Everyone who wants to do real Counter coding work should have login (SSH only). And
    giving CVS access if you have an SSH login is MUCH simpler.</li>
  <li>The machine hasn't got a tape drive. Thoughts about backups?<br>
    (We've got 2x9 Gbytes of disk. Methinks the DB &amp; the CVS are the only things REALLY in
    need of backups - I can at least scp those inside the firewall every night)</li>
  <li>Who needs to have the root password?</li>
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<p>Once I'm out from that *** firewall, I would really appreciate some more coders!</p>

<h3>Logo contest: Status and next steps</h3>

<p>Denis has called for us to pick the &quot;ten best&quot;, to a thundering silence on
the list. Thoughts on how to do the selection?</p>

<h3>User info: What to show, how to secure it</h3>

<p>Currently we show user name &amp; email in the lists.</p>

<p>I'd like to change to only name in lists, and rest of info in a CGI, much as
I've now
done with the <a href="http://counter.li.org/reports/usergroups.php">usergroups</a>.
(That was an 1-evening hack. Check it out.)<br>
This also means that we can show more info about persons. Should we?</p>

<p>People find the &quot;key&quot; thing confusing, and I can't say I disagree with them.
Let's call the durn thing a password. Not more secure, just more familiar. We can even
hash it if we want to.</p>

<p>Question: Should we attempt to let Apache do the login prompt for us? It does roughly
the right thing, but it means an auth DB of 130.000 entries unless we do significant
magic....</p>

<h3>About that <a href="http://counter.li.org/todo.php">TODO list</a>.....</h3>
<p>Could we get some work done on prioritizing this? Get it voted on?</p>

<h3>Any Other Business</h3>

<p>if we have room for anything in 2 hours (and if we can last that long), it'll be a minor miracle.<br>
We've mostly done 1 hour before, I think.</p>

<p> See you there!</p>


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